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.643. Patented Jan. 2.9, 1884.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

AUGUSTUS F. FRIEND, OF GBAVESEND, NEV YORK.

, SKEWER-PULDLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 292,643, dated January 29, 1884.

7 Application filed December 1-2, 1883. (No mo(lel.)'

To all whom it may concern):

- Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS F. FRIEND, of Gravesend, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skewer -Pullers, ,of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this-specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimprovement. Fig. 2 is an elevation of one part of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of the jaws, taken through the line as 00, Fig. 1.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the withdrawal of skewers from cooked meats.

The invention consists in a skewer-puller constructed with handles pivoted to each other at their forward ends, and provided at their said forward ends with jaws having their faces concavedlongitudinally, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A B represent the handles of the improvement. The handles A B may be made plain,

plement. The forward ends of the handles A B are pivoted to each other, and upon the forward ends of the said handles are formed jaws G D, the faces of which are concaved longitudinally, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, to adapt them to take a firm hold upon the skewer. The concaved faces of the jaws GD may be made smooth, as shown in the drawings, or may be roughened, as may be desired. With this construction the skewers can be easily, quickly, and conveniently with drawn from the meat.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A skewer-puller constructed substantially as herein shown and described, and con-- sisting of the handles A B, pivoted to each other at their forward ends, and provided at their said forward ends with jaws O D, having their faces concaved longitudinally, as set forth.

2. In a skewer-puller, the jaws O D, concaved longitudinally, substantially as herein shown and described, to adapt them to .take a firm hold upon a skewer, as set forth.

. AUGUSTUS F. FRIEND.

WVitnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, EDGAR TATE. 

